EFRC - Revolutionary Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion

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The full publication list of the RMSSEC EFRC is avaialble online at the follwoing DOE website. This list is frequently updated and will provide users with the latest information on Center publications.

RMSSEC researchers have once again set a new recored in terms of thermoelectric performance of a material. In work led by Professor Kanatzidis of Northwestern Unviersity, single crystals of SnSe exhbiit ZT values in excess of 2.5 at high temperatures. This behavior is attributed to a highly anharmonic phonon spectrum that produces ver low lattice thermal conductivity in this compound. The work has appeared in Nature magazine and can be accessed at the link below: